Dell Inspiron 5030 - Re-image

Last night's challenge was to backup and restore a Dell Inspiron 5030 laptop. For some odd reason Dell made this laptop a bit more complicated in that it's hard drive does not simply pull out form the side of the laptop with the removal of a few screews. In order to remove the hard drive you have to unscreew all the the screews in the back of the laptop and then flip it over and unsnap the top side of the unit. Luckily for me the Hard drive was in the front right side and I could pop it out quick enough and put it into an external docking bay so I could manually back it up. There was over 79 gigs of data to back up and this made the task alot easier. Once backed up I put the drive back in and ran the recovery partition which has the dell datasafe software on it. I am first trying the save my data option to the recovery process but as a backup I also backed up the drive manually. We will see if this works if not a complete restore might be needed. -TechGuy74